Free cleaning software
Free cleaning business software, with no trial clock
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Broombook is free cleaning business software with no trial clock: $0 for as long as you like, with no credit card, for you plus 2 cleaners and up to 40 visits a month. The free plan includes the booking page with instant prices, recurring cleans with skips, client and home records, a crew app with checklists, card payments through Stripe, email reminders and a payroll export. Pro is $39/mo flat if you outgrow it.
We make Broombook, so this page is written by a vendor. It says exactly what is free, where the limits are, what you only get on Pro (texts to clients and the AI features), and which other free plans suit some cleaning businesses better. For every free option side by side, see our comparison of the best free cleaning business software. To try ours, get Broombook free.
Free for you and 2 cleaners, no credit card. Pro is $39/mo for up to 10 users.
$0 with no end date
Not a 14-day trial. The free plan stays free, and you never enter a card to use it.
A booking page with real prices
Clients see an instant price from bedrooms, bathrooms, size, frequency and extras, then pick an open time.
You plus 2 cleaners
Each cleaner opens a private link with their jobs, checklists and clock-in. Nothing to install.
Get paid on the free plan
Card on file charged after the clean through Stripe, with tips. You pay Stripe's fee and Broombook takes no cut.
What you get for $0
The free plan is the working product, not a demo of it. A solo cleaner or a small crew can take bookings, run the week, get paid and work out pay without paying for software. This is what is included:
- A booking page on your own link, with an instant price from bedrooms, bathrooms, size, type of clean, frequency and extras. You can also put the booking form on your own website. Online bookings arrive as requests you confirm or decline.
- Recurring cleans: weekly, every 2 weeks, every 4 weeks or monthly, with one-visit skips and "this and later visits" changes.
- A calendar with day, week and month views. Drag a visit to move it, with a 6-second undo, and add your visits to Google or Apple Calendar with a private feed.
- Client and home records: beds, baths, square feet, access notes and alarm codes, which the cleaner sees on the visit day only.
- A crew app each cleaner opens from a private link: their jobs, room-by-room checklists with photos, clock in and out, and the day’s route in Google Maps, Apple Maps or Waze.
- Card payments through Stripe: card on file charged after the job with the tip, or checkout with cash, cheque or e-transfer. Optional deposits and late-cancellation or no-show fees.
- Email confirmations, day-before reminders and receipts, each with the client’s own link to move, skip or cancel a visit.
- Payroll numbers: hours from clock-ins, tips split across the crew, commission, and a CSV export.
- Client import from a spreadsheet or from Jobber, ZenMaid or Housecall Pro, and Insights for the last 4 weeks.
The limits, in plain numbers
Free software always has a catch, so here is ours. The free plan covers 3 users (you plus 2 cleaners; a manager counts as a user) and 40 visits a month on the calendar, which is about 9 cleans a week.
When you reach 40 visits in a month, bookings your clients make online still get through, so you never lose a job. What stops is adding more visits by hand until the next month starts or you move to Pro.
Three things are on Pro only. Texts (SMS) to clients: on the free plan, confirmations and reminders go by email. The AI features: the front desk chat on your booking page, the office assistant, note translation and photo estimates. And your branding alone: the free booking page carries a small "Broombook" badge.
Card payments, your booking page and your data exports are never limited. The full table is on the pricing page.
Free plan or free trial: what is the difference?
A free trial is a countdown. Jobber, Housecall Pro and ZenMaid each give you 14 days, and none of the three lists a free plan on its pricing page (checked November 2, 2026). After the trial, billed monthly, Jobber Core is $49/mo for one user, Housecall Pro Basic is $79/mo and ZenMaid Starter is $19/mo.
A free plan has no countdown. You can set it up on a quiet evening, run it for a season, and decide later whether paying is worth it. That matters for a new cleaning business, where the first months are about finding clients, not comparing software against a deadline.
If you are weighing a trial against a free plan, our pages on Jobber pricing, Housecall Pro pricing and ZenMaid pricing show what each costs at your team size once the trial ends.
Other free cleaning business software, and how it differs
Broombook is not the only free plan built for cleaners. These three are worth knowing, with limits taken from each vendor’s own pricing page (linked under Sources):
- Maidily Free: unlimited users and up to 10 jobs a month, with SMS notifications. Better than ours if you do a handful of cleans a month and want clients texted for free.
- FieldVibe Solo: free for one user with unlimited jobs and clients, recurring visits and reminders you send from your own phone. Quotes, invoices and online payments start on Solo Pro at $20/mo. A fit for a solo cleaner who never plans to add a crew or take cards through the software.
- DoTimely Essential: free with unlimited customers, staff and appointments, plus chat, photos and visit reports. Recurring appointments and invoicing are listed on Pro, from $15/mo plus $10 per additional staff member.
- Broombook Free sits between them: more visits a month than Maidily Free, a crew and card payments where FieldVibe Solo has neither, and recurring cleans on the free plan where DoTimely lists them on its paid one.
Is there a cleaning business software free download?
There is nothing to download. Broombook is a web app: you open it in the browser on a phone, tablet or computer, and your data is the same on all of them. Cleaners open a private link, so they install nothing either.
That is safer than it sounds. A program you download and install lives on one computer: if the laptop breaks, the schedule goes with it, and your cleaners cannot see it from a client’s driveway. Be careful with sites that offer "free download" cleaning programs; a spreadsheet you control is a better fallback than an installer from an unknown source.
If a spreadsheet is what you want, our free tools include a house cleaning price calculator, a cleaning invoice template and a cleaning contract template, with no signup.
How to set it up in one evening
A new account shows a setup checklist that ticks itself off as you go. The order that works for most owners:
- Create your account with an email address. No card is asked for.
- Set your prices: home-size brackets, your services and add-ons. If you have not priced by home size before, start with the house cleaning pricing guide.
- Set your hours and add your cleaners, each with their own working days.
- Bring in your clients from a spreadsheet, and your upcoming visits from a spreadsheet or a Google Calendar export. Nobody is texted or emailed during an import.
- Connect Stripe if you want to take cards, then book a test clean on your own booking page the way a client would.
- Share your booking link on your Google Business Profile, your Facebook page and in your texts to new leads.
When is Pro worth $39 a month?
Stay on the free plan for as long as it fits. Owners usually move to Pro for one of three reasons: they pass 40 visits a month, they hire a third cleaner, or they want clients reminded by text instead of email.
Pro is $39/mo, or $390/yr, for up to 10 users with unlimited visits, texts to clients, every AI feature and no Broombook badge. There is no per-cleaner fee, so hiring does not change the bill. You can move up or back down under Settings whenever you like, and your data stays either way.
One missed clean costs more than a month of Pro for most businesses. If email reminders are getting lost and you have had a lockout or a no-show, that is the sign.
Pick something else if...
- You do 10 or fewer cleans a month and want clients texted for free. Maidily Free includes SMS notifications; our texts are on Pro.
- You clean alone, never plan to hire, and want unlimited jobs with no monthly cap. FieldVibe Solo is free for one user.
- You run a commercial janitorial company that needs inspections, bids and monthly invoices with payment terms. See our page on free janitorial software for what is free in that market.
- You need a native app from the App Store or Google Play. We are a web app that runs in the phone browser.
Sources
- Maidily pricing page and plan comparison (checked November 2, 2026)
- FieldVibe pricing page (checked November 6, 2026)
- DoTimely pricing page (checked November 6, 2026)
- Jobber pricing page (checked November 2, 2026)
- Housecall Pro pricing page (checked November 2, 2026)
- ZenMaid pricing page (checked November 2, 2026)
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Is Broombook really free?
Yes. Broombook Free is $0 with no end date and no credit card, for you plus 2 cleaners and up to 40 visits a month. It includes the booking page, recurring cleans, client and home records, the crew app, card payments through Stripe, email reminders and a payroll export. You only pay if you choose Pro, at $39/mo.
What is the catch with the free plan?
The limits: 3 users and 40 visits a month. Confirmations and reminders go to clients by email, not text. The AI features are not included, and your booking page shows a small Broombook badge. Card payments cost Stripe's processing fee, which you would pay with any software; Broombook adds no fee of its own.
Is there free cleaning business software to download?
Broombook needs no download. It is a web app that runs in the browser on any phone or computer, so there is no installer and no update to chase, and cleaners open a private link. Your schedule is the same on every device.
What happens when I pass 40 visits in a month?
Bookings your clients make online still get through. What stops is adding more visits by hand on the calendar until the next month starts, or until you move to Pro, which has no visit limit.
Can I take card payments on the free plan?
Yes. Connect Stripe and you can keep a card on file and charge it after each clean, with tips, deposits and late-cancellation or no-show fees. You pay Stripe's processing fee and Broombook takes no cut, on both plans.
Does the free plan send text reminders?
No. On the free plan, confirmations, day-before reminders and receipts go by email. Text (SMS) confirmations and reminders to clients, and text alerts to you, are part of Pro at $39/mo, with no per-message charge.
Do Jobber, Housecall Pro or ZenMaid have free cleaning business software?
No free plan is listed on any of their pricing pages (checked November 2, 2026). Each offers a 14-day free trial, then a paid plan: Jobber Core from $49/mo for one user, Housecall Pro Basic from $79/mo and ZenMaid Starter from $19/mo, billed monthly.
Is the free plan enough for a house cleaning business?
For a solo cleaner or a crew of up to 3 people doing about 9 cleans a week, yes: it covers booking, the recurring schedule, client records, checklists, payments and pay. Past 40 visits a month or 2 cleaners, Pro is one flat $39/mo for up to 10 users.
Run your cleaning business from one place
The free plan needs no credit card and never runs out. Want more users and AI? Pro is $39/mo, with no per-cleaner charges.
- Free plan
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- No per-cleaner fees